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Elgin Man Charged With Arson Fire In Dundee Township

(CBS) -- A 27-year-old man Elgin man is now charged with arson - accused of setting a fire in a neighborhood in Dundee Township last week.

The fire was last Wednesday afternoon - and the man charged is Phokam Prisayana.

Kane County Sheriff's Lieutenant Pat Gengler says Prisayana is accused of setting the fire in the home that was under renovation in a rather remote area of Dundee Township.

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"The property where the fire occurred, at one point in time, had been used for a church. There was the house which was burned and then there was an outbuilding that had been used for a church. And this man may have been involved with that church back when it occupied that property."

Lieutenant Gengler says that after the fire started, a neighbor held Prisayana on the scene until authorities got there.

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